.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 299 137
Rank change year-on-year +61 -162 +25
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 686 391 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.81% 0.97% 2.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.73% 5.00% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 659 327 1,696
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,873 7,822 17,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.48% 19.38% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,775 5,269 14,461
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +73 162 £55,000 +10.00% 46
North of England +12 152 £55,000 -8.33% 48
East of England +63 99 £62,500 +13.64% 22
Midlands +28 98 £55,000 -8.33% 24
London -84 93 £82,500 +3.13% 52
South West -3 78 £52,500 - 12
North West +8 72 £52,500 -12.50% 25
North East +4 56 £65,000 +33.33% 13
West Midlands +11 51 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +11 47 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -41 24 £55,000 -10.20% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.46%) IIS
3 6 (0.87%) CMS
4 3 (0.44%) Confluence
4 3 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.44%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.29%) DNN
5 2 (0.29%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.29%) Immediacy CMS
5 2 (0.29%) Kentico
5 2 (0.29%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Magento
1 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 527 (76.82%) Azure
2 167 (24.34%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (16.03%) GitHub
4 109 (15.89%) AWS
5 103 (15.01%) Azure AI
6 97 (14.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 53 (7.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 52 (7.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (6.27%) SaaS
10 42 (6.12%) Power Platform
11 35 (5.10%) Serverless
12 27 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.94%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.94%) PowerApps
13 24 (3.50%) Azure Functions
14 23 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (2.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.69%) Internet
2 8 (1.17%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Modbus
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (50.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 278 (40.52%) MongoDB
3 146 (21.28%) SQL Server
4 110 (16.03%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (5.25%) Power BI
6 13 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.75%) MySQL
8 8 (1.17%) Redis
9 7 (1.02%) NonStop SQL
9 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.73%) GIS
12 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.44%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 35 (5.10%) Git
2 11 (1.60%) JIRA
3 7 (1.02%) GitLab
4 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.44%) MSI
5 3 (0.44%) NUnit
5 3 (0.44%) Vite
6 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.29%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) webpack
7 1 (0.15%) MSTest
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 98 (14.29%) Finance
2 53 (7.73%) Social Skills
3 42 (6.12%) Advertising
4 37 (5.39%) Games
5 29 (4.23%) Marketing
6 25 (3.64%) Retail
7 19 (2.77%) Banking
8 12 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.46%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.31%) Automotive
10 9 (1.31%) Law
11 8 (1.17%) Front Office
12 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.02%) Legal
12 7 (1.02%) Music Industry
13 5 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.73%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.58%) Back Office
14 4 (0.58%) Electronics
14 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 562 (81.92%) Developer
2 422 (61.52%) .NET Developer
3 106 (15.45%) Senior
4 96 (13.99%) Software Developer
5 63 (9.18%) C# Developer
5 63 (9.18%) Senior Developer
6 53 (7.73%) C# .NET Developer
7 50 (7.29%) Lead
8 46 (6.71%) Software Engineer
9 42 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.66%) Lead Developer
11 28 (4.08%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (3.79%) .NET Software Engineer
13 25 (3.64%) .NET Software Developer
14 21 (3.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 21 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.62%) Azure Developer
16 18 (2.62%) C# Software Developer
17 17 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 686 (100.00%) .NET
2 399 (58.16%) ASP.NET
3 336 (48.98%) ASP.NET Core
4 177 (25.80%) HTML
5 174 (25.36%) CSS
6 171 (24.93%) React
7 170 (24.78%) Entity Framework
8 163 (23.76%) Blazor
9 144 (20.99%) RESTful
10 140 (20.41%) Vue
11 139 (20.26%) AngularJS
12 134 (19.53%) ASP.NET Web API
13 122 (17.78%) Node.js
14 119 (17.35%) .NET Framework
15 103 (15.01%) ML.NET
16 81 (11.81%) LINQ
17 57 (8.31%) REST
18 41 (5.98%) JSON
19 25 (3.64%) WPF
20 21 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.91%) Greenfield Project
2 42 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.48%) Digital TV
4 14 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.04%) Hedge funds
4 14 (2.04%) iPhone
4 14 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.90%) Social Network
5 13 (1.90%) Sports Betting
6 11 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 8 (1.17%) BBC
7 8 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.17%) Social Media
8 7 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.02%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.04%) Android
2 13 (1.90%) Windows
3 12 (1.75%) VMS
4 3 (0.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (61.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 324 (47.23%) Agile
3 217 (31.63%) CI/CD
4 202 (29.45%) DevOps
5 160 (23.32%) Microservices
6 130 (18.95%) AI
7 123 (17.93%) Machine Learning
8 115 (16.76%) Multithreading
9 95 (13.85%) Software Engineering
10 72 (10.50%) OO
11 63 (9.18%) Scrum
12 62 (9.04%) TDD
13 58 (8.45%) SDLC
14 51 (7.43%) Analytics
14 51 (7.43%) User Experience
15 50 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (6.85%) BDD
17 46 (6.71%) MVC
18 45 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
18 45 (6.56%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 643 (93.73%) C#
2 439 (63.99%) SQL
3 207 (30.17%) JavaScript
4 176 (25.66%) TypeScript
5 37 (5.39%) PowerShell
6 20 (2.92%) Python
7 13 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.87%) Bicep
10 5 (0.73%) Java
11 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.44%) Bash
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
12 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.15%) C++
13 1 (0.15%) Delphi
13 1 (0.15%) F#
13 1 (0.15%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 42 (6.12%) Degree
2 20 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.02%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.58%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.64%) QA
2 16 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.58%) WCAG
4 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.44%) NCSC
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
5 2 (0.29%) ITGC
5 2 (0.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (23.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 150 (21.87%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.62%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 411 (59.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.69%) Facebook
3 32 (4.66%) Google
4 19 (2.77%) Adobe
5 16 (2.33%) YouTube
6 8 (1.17%) Apple
6 8 (1.17%) Sony
6 8 (1.17%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.58%) Workday
9 3 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.44%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.44%) Splunk
10 2 (0.29%) Alterian
10 2 (0.29%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle
10 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.15%) Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) Reuters
11 1 (0.15%) WooCommerce